Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Late Friday afternoon ahead of one of Appleton's busiest weekends, the Appleton Police Department encountered a suicidal, homicidal person just a few blocks away from an already busy downtown. Skillfully and compassionately, they negotiated an end to the drama with no injuries to anyone. The department, currently led by Police Chief Polly Olson, has enjoyed [...]
Had we brought our steins, we would have raised them to the plucky participants of Cedarburg's Oktoberfest. Neither rain, nor wind, nor invasion by Polish/Croatian interlopers kept them from their appointed rounds. Prost! We wandered into the main tent on a soggy Saturday afternoon just in time for the Pommersche Tanzdeel Freistadt dancers (and, fortunately, [...]
Let other Oktoberfests celebrate with fancy steins and thick pretzels. Here in Wisconsin, nothing says Oktoberfest like deep-fried cheese curds. In Appleton, where more than 100,000 people jammed College Avenue for the annual Oktoberfest, (celebrated with good ole Midwestern German stubbornness in September) almost every food stand listed cheese curds on its menu. Unique to [...]